Early Jewish works which were not included in the Biblical canon.
Questions tagged [apocrypha]
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Is it permissible to read works of the apocrypha?
The Mishna in Sanhedrin 10:1 says
וְאֵלּוּ שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם חֵלֶק לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא.... רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא אוֹמֵר, אַף הַקּוֹרֵא בַסְּפָרִים הַחִיצוֹנִים
These are the ones who do not have a share in the world to come...Rabbi Akiva says: Even someone who…
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Is ben Sira a good book?
In a comment on another question, R' Gershon Gold linked to a page on Beit El Yeshiva's Web site that starts its discussion of a point of halacha with a quotation from Chochmas ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus). I don't recall ever before seeing this book…
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Where in the Talmud is there a discussion of which books to canonize and who redacted the books of Navi?
I believe those two discussions were in the same daf. anyone can help?
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